{"id":13146,"date":"2016-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/heimanamsadstod-og-aukin-faerni\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:59:44","slug":"home-study-support-and-increased-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/heimanamsadstod-og-aukin-faerni\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework help"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Homework help for<br \/>\nStudents with an international background<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><i>Homework help is now<br \/>\nAvailable for students with an international background in Years 9-11 in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<br \/>\nThe project is intended for students who need help with their homework and are interested.<br \/>\nto meet once a week and receive help from volunteers. The homework help<br \/>\nis available every Wednesday from 16:30 \u2013 18:00 at Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Library.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project is to create a framework where students with<br \/>\nStudents from foreign backgrounds receive help with their homework. The project began in the autumn as soon as<br \/>\nThe primary schools started teaching and the first week of the school year was spent catching up.<br \/>\noutside of that group of students, need the assistance. The students have now turned up<br \/>\nto the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Library on several occasions and received assistance from volunteers from<br \/>\nFlensborg and the Red Cross helping with their homework (often all their homework<br \/>\nfor the week). Most of the volunteers<br \/>\nare secondary school and university students, and so it wasn't long ago that they themselves were<br \/>\nto learn what they are helping students with. That is how the volunteers are<br \/>\n\u201eFresh\u201c in what they guide them in and they connect with the kids really well.<\/p>\n<p><b>Increased skill in<br \/>\nin a wide-ranging field<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The project is designed to ensure that those children who<br \/>\nnot getting help with their studies at home for when they come to be at an advantage<br \/>\nacademically and not least socially. The arrangement is nothing new and<br \/>\nhas experience elsewhere demonstrated increased academic ability, increased social skills,<br \/>\nbetter Icelandic skills and improved participants' self-confidence and well-being at school as<br \/>\nOften goes hand in hand with academic security.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heiman\u00e1msa\u00f0sto\u00f0 fyrir nemendur me\u00f0 erlendan bakgrunn Heiman\u00e1msa\u00f0sto\u00f0 er n\u00fa \u00ed bo\u00f0i fyrir nemendur me\u00f0 erlendan bakgrunn \u00ed 8.-10 bekk \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i. Verkefni\u00f0 er \u00e6tla\u00f0 \u00feeim nemendum sem vantar a\u00f0sto\u00f0 vi\u00f0 heiman\u00e1m og hafa \u00e1huga a\u00f0 hittast einu sinni \u00ed viku og f\u00e1 a\u00f0sto\u00f0 fr\u00e1 sj\u00e1lfbo\u00f0ali\u00f0um. Heiman\u00e1msa\u00f0sto\u00f0in er \u00ed bo\u00f0i alla mi\u00f0vikudaga fr\u00e1 kl. 16:30 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}